aevagentoo seems nice. i'm thinking of switching to gentoo
i mained gentoo back in the day and was very proud that i slogged through the really hard installation process and learned a lot from it, but i'm relieved that the docs promise you can power through an installation in about an hour on a modern system if you are really hurried and i think that's great
also I'm enjoying reading through the handbook which is very detailed but also very clear, so that's probably a good sign
gentoo install update: crossed the point of no return about about two hours ago. now in a chroot. i skipped over the binary packages step because it's optional and my eyes are tired, so now a lot of gentoo things are happening.
alright, after about 4 or 5 hours of careful configurating and compiling I am now the proud owner of an unbootable #gentoo system 😎 it isn't accepting the password i encrypted the disk with
I can still unlock the disk and chroot into it via the live installer though, so I probably just fucked up something with grub. an adventure for tomorrow
side thought, I think more software should have build time options to become more offensive https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/offensive
aw, the `offensive` use flag for gentoo-artwork is just to enable some commie nonsense i was hoping it was something horny https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-301223.html
I have successfully installed gentoo on my laptop. The trick was giving up, starting over, and then realizing the "Simple EFI System Partition Layout" described in the "Rootfs encryption" page is a trap to catch wizards (the actual simple installation is the "Split EFI/BOOTx Grub layout" alternative described after it) 😌
also for some reason I never got to the bottom of, fedora just couldn't play video? like at all? i mean, it could, if the video was really short and really tiny, but it would freeze if you full screened it or tried to seek. absolute clown show. my gentoo install doesn't have this problem at all <3
Yer Feff@aeva I'm gonna make a massive assumption here, but Fedora devs have opinions on what is included in a fresh by default to stay truely "free".
Often means you do have to enable RPMFusion's non-free repos, and replace Fedora's FFMPEG-"lite" with the full version in order to have any proper graphics and media functionality.
Antonio Patriarca
Özgür@feff @aeva Definitely true, Fedora has a goal of creating a fully open source distro. So nothing patented, nothing closed source(the foss license also needs to be approved)
Firefox also does not have drm, which is something I appreciate a lot. Only exception is binary blobs for hardware, like wifi cards etc.
the h264 patent thing is just awful, and most times you even pay for it with your pc
But I think there could be better documentation on the video codec parts.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packaged/
